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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDVIN O. BRUEN,'OF BROOKLYN, NE\V YORK.

PYROTECHNlC-THROWING DEVICE.

fiPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,103, dated June 1,1886.

Application filed March 31, 1886. Serial No. 197,330.

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. BRUEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn,in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented acertain new, useful, and Improved Pyrotechnic-Throwing Device,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is designed to provide a device for throwing into the aira burning firecracker or other pyrotechnic device employing a fuse atthe time of explosion.

The invention consists of a pyrotechnicthrowing device comprising aholder for the pyrotechnic device provided with an actuating-springswhich is rendered operative by the combustion of the fuse of thepyrotechnic device to suddenly and quickly throw such device into theair, as I will now proceed to particularly set forth and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a topplan view, of a toy pistol embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is across-section of Fig.2, taken on the line a: x.

In the drawings 1 have shown one very simple embodiment of my invention,and without thereby limiting my invention to any particular form ofconstruction I will proceed to de' scribe my invention as thusillustrated.

a is a handle,provided with a holder, b, forthepyrotechnicdevice,saidholderbeiugshown asa'lever pivoted in one endof the handle and adapted to receive the pyrotechnic device in its rearend, and provided at its forward end with a spring, 0, which tends tothrow the rear end up and away from the handle. A hook or detent, (1,projects from the handle across or into a slotted portion, 6, of theholder in such manner as to receive the fuse f of a fire-cracker, g, orother pyrotechnic device applied to the rear end of the holder, saidfuse serving to retain the detent and holder in engagement until thefuse is consumed up to or beneath the detent, at which time the springwill act to throw the holder into the position indicated by dottedlines, Fig. 1, thereby ex- (No model.)

pelling the fire-cracker or other pyrotechnic device from the holder upinto the air.

For convenience of applying the pyrotechnic device, the rear end of theholder may V be provided with a cavity, h, adapted to re ceive it, andthis cavity will be found convenient in centering the device withrelation to the detent.

What I claim as my invention,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pyrotechnie-th rowing device compris ing a stock or handle, aholder for the pyrotechnic arranged upon said stock, a springco-operating with said holder to move it and project the pyrotechnic.and a detent on said stock, which retains the holderin inactive positionby the intervention of the unburned fuse-of the pyrotechnic device,substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of a handle, a lever pivoted thereto and constitutinga holder for the pyrotechnic device, a spring connected to said holder,and the handle to forcibly rotate the holder upon its pivot, and adetent co-operating with a slotted portion of the holder and retainingthe holder in inactive position by the interposition of the unburnedfuse of the pyrotechnic device, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a handle, a pyrotechnic-holder pivoted in theforward end of the handle, and provided with a cavity to receive thepyrotechnic device, a spring connected to the holder and handle, to givethe holder an impulse to expel the pyrotechnic device, and a fixeddetent on the handle interposed between the handle and holder, the saidhandle and holder being locked together by the interposition between thedetent and holder of the unburned fuse of a pyrotechnic device,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of March,A. D. 1886.

EDWVIN O. BRUEN.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR O. WEBB, ERNEST G. WEBB.

